Divine Hymn & Psychic Scream shared CD

Alas, I do not have access to the blizzard US forums (damn them for making EU users lesser users anyway), so maybe one of the US posters here could be so kind as to post something about this issue on the US forums? I'd really love to see a blue reply to this question.

Divine Hymn is a pretty lackluster spell, I think we can agree on that. But at least it would be a second CC in PVP. But it cannot even be that, because when you use it you get 30 seconds cooldown on psychic scream, and vice versa. I so fucking hate that from the second I realized it. There is not a single situation where DH would be better than PS. If you could DH when PS was on cooldown though, it would find its (little) uses.

The last thing I read from blues about the Priest Hymn issues was "we have something planned for them, but its not a priority". Meh.

So could someone try to post on the US forums about the shared CD issue? I think if the shared CD would be removed the spell would go from absolutely useless to sometimes very useful. Which would be like a 1000% boost.

Cheers

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Re: Divine Hymn & Psychic Scream shared CD

Been playing for a few days now skimrishes for 2v2/3v3 and I believe divine hymn isint quite as useless as you guys are making it. Why?

Yes it does have a cast time and no it CANNOT be used to prevent bursts on you (fear is better here no matter what)

BUT! Divine hymn does last longer has a larger range and prevents the target from moving (as oppose to fear which 50% of the time makes him LoS or range you)

So when can it be used? When your partner is trying to gib the dpser again healer/dps setup u can use it to prevent him from healing longer then fear would

also to prevent enemies running away

Aside from giving your enemies a free pain suppression: DH will only last 2 seconds longer in pvp, 10 secs instead of 8 secs fear. But that doesn't matter anyway because they will just trinket out of it. If they would remove the shared CD you could DH, let them trinket it, and then fear them for the full duration, or vice versa. That would give us at least a fighting chance.

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Considering PVE: Psychic Scream cannot be used in normal situations because feared mobs will just come back with newly added ones. Divine Hymn also is pretty much unusable in instances because - lets face it - pretty much no crowd control is ever used in instances because tanks do their AOE tanking part oh so well these days.

Considering PVP: Divine Hymn isn't an easy spell to use. First it is not usable in shadowform, though this is bearable. Second, it has 1,5 seconds casttime - Psychic Scream is instant. Psychic Scream also gets distance between you and your attacker, which you as a caster usually want. Divine Hymn incapacitates them so you yourself have to get away, which you can't if you want to cast non-instant spells.

So not only does psychic scream win against divine hymn when it comes to crowd control, with the talents it is completely superior to it.

Now, if psychic scream was on cooldown I would be happy to use divine hymn, for it would be the only crowd control ability I had left (mindcontrol is unusable in pvp). But I cannot because it shares a cooldown with psychic scream. And as I said or rather wrote, when you have to choose between the hymn and the scream, scream ALWAYS wins because of instant cast, not giving free pain suppressions, and being effected by talents.

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TL&DR Version: Remove the shared Cooldown between Psychic Scream and Divine Hymn, because Divine Hymn is completely unusable with it in place. [/quot€]

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